Places SteamHatBob Wants to Go

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

The final resting place of one of the most iconic musicians of the '80s.

Dozens of striking Indian symbols cover the second-floor hallways of this rural courthouse.

The charming collection celebrates a small Ohio village's Finnish roots.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.